Listeria monocytogenes virulence factor secretion: Don't leave the cell without a chaperone

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Cahoon, Laty A ^a   Freitag, Nancy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial pathogenesis; Cell wall; Foldase; LLO; PPIase; PrfA; PrsA; PrsA2

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; PRSA2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; LIPOPROTEIN; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PRSA2 PROTEIN, LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR SECRETION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS; CELL WALL; ENZYMOLOGY; FOLDASE; HUMAN; LLO; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PPIASE; PRFA; PROTEIN FOLDING; PRSA; PRSA2; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS; CELL WALL; FOLDASE; LLO; PPIASE; PRFA; PRSA; PRSA2;

CELL WALL; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LOCOMOTION; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84897926861     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00013     Document Type: Review

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